{"id":135,"date":"2023-11-16T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=135"},"modified":"2024-10-02T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:56:02","slug":"vito-pitta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/vito-pitta\/","title":{"rendered":"Vito Pitta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Vito Pitta has come up a lot in the news lately, as federal prosecutors zero in on donations to Eric Adams’s 2021 mayoral run, but his name has rung loudly in New York City politics and power for much longer. Pitta’s grandfather, also named Vito Pitta, was the longtime head of the powerful Hotel Trades Council (now the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, see entry on Rich Maroko). Grandfather Pitta immigrated from Sicily and rose in the ranks from a busboy at the Plaza Hotel to the top of the HTC, eventually retiring in 1995. Along the way, he was named in a racketeering indictment involving the Colombo family<\/a>. (Charges were later dismissed.) His son, Vincent Pitta, co-founded the lobbying firm Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno and the law firm Pitta LLP, with Vito the younger now in line to take over<\/a> the law firm (Vito works at the lobbying firm as well). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno goes back years with Eric Adams. While he was borough president, the firm would often lobby Adams on behalf of multiple clients, like the correctional officers union and healthcare nonprofits. That lobbying was ongoing when, in 2018, Adams hired the Pitta LLC law firm as a political and legal consultant in the run-up to his mayoral campaign. During the 2021 election, Adams appeared to be the only candidate who hired the same people or consultants who were simultaneously lobbying him in his current office, something that one governmental accountability advocate said is technically legal but “stinks.”<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n